Okay, so there are a few other things we don't have — one of them being hulu. Yeah, there's always watchtvsitcoms.com. But, it's slow, full of annoying flash ads, and the quality of the shows is spotty.

A while back, I tried to beat hulu's geofencing (fuck geofencing) by creating an SSH tunnel. That was a miserable failure. Then, recently, I saw somebody tweet about using OpenVPN. So, I gave it a shot, and it worked!

How To Do this Yourself

Now, I could tell you to go and read the official tutorial on setting up OpenVPN. But, I've got something better.

I put together a chef[1] recipe for installing OpenVPN on a virtual machine. The whole process is automated. So, you don't really need to know anything about OpenVPN to get up and running.

Or, if you don't have git installed, grab a tarball from github. Then, unarchive it:

tar zxvf giraffesoft-openvpn-recipes-xyz.tar.gz

You'll also need capistrano (on your local machine).

sudo gem install capistrano

Now, cd in to the dir you cloned or extracted. Then, edit config/deploy.rb to match your settings.

You'll want to set :host to your server's domain name or ip address. You'll also want to set user to the name of the user you're going to get ssh'd in as. Finally, set the country, province, city, etc variables. Those are for generating the signing authority.

[1] Incidentally, if you do absolutely any work with servers or systems configuration and you haven't had a look at chef yet, you're doing yourself a disservice. Chef allows you to keep all of your servers' configuration in a git (or other scm) repository, edit it locally and deploy it out to your server (or cluster thereof). It also does a lot of other awesome stuff. Check it out!